Ok this home Arduino enthusiast makes an incredibly cool LED coffee table that is a giant game of Tetris. How awesome is that? If you don’t know what Arduino here is the description from their site: Arduino is a tool for making computers that can sense and control more of the physical world than your…
Awesome Raspberry Pi Cluster
Ok this is cool. Guy makes a 33 raspberry pi beowulf cluster at home. In case you didn’t know what raspberry pi is, it is a low cost credit card sized computer that can plug into a monitor and keyboard. It uses programming languages such as Scratch and Python. It also makes it easy for…
Guy Makes a Light Bike from Tron..Wow
Ok here it is a light cycle like from the movie Tron. This is pretty awesome. Lex Kendall worked on the project from Evolve Electric Motorcycles and with his partners from Florida Parker Brothers Custom Choppers figured out how to make this version. The batteries are way more sustainable than a regular motor. It is…
Hendo Hoverboard Coverage Part 2 – Tony Hawk Rides One
In the first post on the Hendo Hoverboard we showed the inventor, talked about their kickstarter project and got to watch it in action. In part 2 Tony Hawk, world famous skateboarder visits Hendo labs. This is particularly interesting because he was in the famous or infamous hoverboard prank video along with other celebrities. That…
Self Driving Mercedes Benz F015 is Awesome
Once again we have life imitating art, or movies in this case which can be considered art depending on the script, actors and director. The self driving car is finally here and it is a luxury sedan. Mercedez Benz shows off their F015 in Alameda, California and the car drives itself. Holger Hutzenlaub from the…
Will Metamaterials Power the Internet of the Future?
The Optoelectronics Research Centre in the United Kingdom is studying metamaterials. Meta what? They are leading a study on nanostructured photonic materials. Metamaterials represent the beginning of a new photonic revolution according to the narrator. In nanotechnology molecules are configured in a way to make artificial structures. So why is this important? Because the current…
A Hoverboard in 2015..Is This For Real?
Is this finally a real world hoverboard? Many of you may remember the hoverboard prank that went around with stars such as Moby, Tony Hawk and others. The jury is still out whether or not that was just some famous folks having fun or a bit too much. In 2015 this appears to be a…
Invisibility Jacket..This is Awesome
An invisibility cloak using nanotechnology was made in Japan and this is truly amazing. The technology comes from 2003 but the developers say this is just the beginning. The team is led by Dr. Susumu Tachi from Keio University. It is called retro reflective projection technology. Maybe you wanted to move in invisibility like the…
Nanotechnology and Light..See What it Can Do
Nanomaterials are less than 100 nanometers in length, width or depth. That is a few billionths of a meter. At this Syracuse University lab they are studying mainly two areas within the world of nanotech. One are semiconductive quantum dots and alloy nanoparticles like gold and silver or stainless steel. In this video what is…
bend desk this is insanely cool
This is one of my favorite posts so far on Shocking Science. This is a BendDesk which is a a curved interactive surface capable of gaming and interaction just like a touch screen tablet. The inventor lists a few of the components you would need to make this thing: Two projectors, 3 cameras, IR-LEDs. This…
MIT Scientists Use Stream of Data and Energy to Transform Furniture
Wow the team at MIT does it again. The structure in this video actually looks like the inside of a data center with a bunch or racked blade servers. However, it is an experimental surface that may be the future of coffee tables, kitchen tables and furniture around the world. The transformative surfaces may have…
See Through 3D Desktop..Totally Rad..
Processing speeds, applications and mobile devices have all progressed at lightning fast speed. And despite advances with 3D sensing and display technologies, for some reason keboards and monitors for desktops have stayed much the same..until now. Jinha Lee and researcher Cati Boulonger demonstrate a pretty rad desktop that has a see through monitor and hand…
